The books end with him and his wife leaving for New Bedford to start their new lives together. While they were living in New Bedford Douglass still was treated differently from the whites because they didn’t want to work beside a black man. Afraid that their jobs would be taken from them. Not long after Fredrick Douglass was asked to speak at an anti-slavery convention. Which started Douglass down the path to becoming one of the most influential figures in history.
This was one of the best books that have read been created about a public figure. The raw emotion, details, and real stories that was put into the narrative made the book enjoyable to read. The moments when Douglass talks about the Underground Railroad was very insightful for me. This was very interesting to read because in school you learn about the same freedom train but differently. Douglass speaks about it like it was a death wish, and it only made slave owners keep a tighter grip on their slaves because the Underground Railroad wasn’t a secret to slave owners like we learned about in school. More slave owners knew about it than slaves, since it was sung about by all the slaves. The only slaves who really escaped this was were desperate to leave. As far